Friday, October 21, 2005

Blame the pumpkinhead

Russert's role in the Plame affair is becoming more critical by the day:

Until this week, "the news media did it" was a standard
defense among Republicans trying to protect the Bush
administration from the political fallout of Fitzgerald's
criminal investigation. Loyalists said that even if White
House aides had passed on information, they didn't get it
from classified sources and were simply repeating what they
heard from journalists.

In grand jury testimony shown to Rove, Libby said he had
told Rove about information he had gotten about Wilson's
wife from Russert, according to a person directly familiar
with the information.

Prosecutors, however, have a different account from
Russert. The TV network has said Russert told authorities he
did not know Wilson's wife's identity until it was published
and therefore could not have told Libby about it. Russert
also says that it was Libby who initiated the contact with
him.

Either Libby is lying to the grand jury or Russert is.
Who do you suppose has more reason to lie?